I can talk ad nauseum about how good A.C.O.D. is but it comes down to one, small thing. This is the film where Adam Scott becomes a leading man. Scott, who has been a lead on TV, usually plays the small, scene stealing role in films. But when writer director Stu Zicherman was asked about…
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When a first-time director can bring together a hugely impressive cast, it's pretty obvious the movie is something special. If it wasn't, why would actors like Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, Jessica Alba, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jane Lynch all line up to be part of it? The movie is A.C.O.D and the…
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Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, Jessica Alba, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jane Lynch. Not a bad cast, right? Now, what if I was to tell you they were all in one of the funniest and smartest films of the year? That film is called A.C.O.D., an acronym standing for "adult children of…
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Sundance 2013 feels much farther in the past than eight months ago, mostly because many of the festival's best films are now in theaters. Films like Fruitvale Station, The Spectacular Now, Stories We Tell, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Way Way Back, In a World, Before Midnight and more all played the festival and are…
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This year's Sundance Film Festival was full of great films, but the one that stood above the rest for me was Stuart Zicherman's A.C.O.D. The film stars Adam Scott as an adult child of divorce, who weaves his way through life between parents who hate each other (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara). It co-stars Amy Poehler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead,…
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Any film fan should make it a point to attend the Sundance Film Festival at least once. Words can hardly describe the beauty of Park City, the camaraderie of the attendees, the smooth running machine that plays dozens of movies a day on screens all over town. And those movies. Oh, those movies. Some of the best…
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With three days remaining, A.C.O.D. is my favorite film of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by first-timer Stuart Zicherman, it's about "Adult Children of Divorce" and stars Adam Scott as Carter, a man whose parents (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O'Hara) had a brutal breakup on his 9th birthday. Decades later his brother (Clark Duke)…
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